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Comcast Modifies Terms of Service to Acknowlege Throttling,
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Comcast Modifies Terms of Service to Acknowlege Throttling, "Traffic Shaping"

Gadgets & Tech – Months after the EFF and AP were able to show that Comcast was throttling P2P, Comcast has quietly updated their Terms of Service (TOS) on Jan. 25 to cover its butt - by explicitly outlining its traffic management policies.

View Story Discuss (0) (technologyexpert.blogspot.com) 98 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:54pm

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Rebate/Stimulus Checks - What You Need To Know

Money – The lowdown on Washington's new tax rebates: Who qualifies and how much will you get? What do you have to do? And most importantly: When will you see a check?

View Story Discuss (1) (money.cnn.com) 98 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:54pm

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Archbishop Rowan Williams 'shocked' at Sharia row

Religion – The Archbishop of Canterbury is said to be overwhelmed by the "hostility of the response" after his call for parts of Sharia law to be recognised in the UK.

View Story Discuss (0) (news.bbc.co.uk) 98 days ago by _kam0_

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:54pm

Video: Ann Coulter says Romney for V.P.
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Video: Ann Coulter says Romney for V.P.

Politics – Conservative commentator Ann Coulter is trying to fan the flames today of Mitt Romney joining John McCain on the Republican ticket.

View Story Discuss (221) (boston.com) 98 days ago by AlphaGnosis

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:54pm

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Hannah Montana crowned new queen of tween

Celebrities – Who needs men to drive the box office when you've got Miley Ray Cyrus (better known to legions of pint-size fans as Hannah Montana), a multimedia starlet who is on track to be a billionaire by the time she hits 18.

View Story Discuss (2) (msnbc.msn.com) 98 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:04pm

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Islamic mortgages means no credit crunch

Money – Here's a new idea from the whole subprime mess (I say new but it's really thousands of years old!). Islamic law prevents devout Muslims from taking conventional mortgages and instead "Islamic Mortgages" mean that the banks share in the asset ownership and the risk taking. Someone should have suggested that...

View Story Discuss (1) (guardian.co.uk) 98 days ago by AndygM

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:04pm

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AG to US: FU

News – Attorney General Michael Mukasey was on Capitol Hill yesterday, welcoming the House Judiciary Committeeââ;¬"and all of us Americansââ;¬"to the era of recourse-free government. In what can't possibly be over-reported (but, alas, will be noticed by very fewââ

View Story Discuss (0) (theseminal.com) 98 days ago by pawfoots

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:04pm

Propeller Week In Review: February 8, 2008
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Propeller Week In Review: February 8, 2008

News – Several stories about Mitt Romney made our Top Twenty, charting his rise (such as it was) and fall. There were also popular posts about the Super Bowl, the biggest garbage dump on the planet, and the many-splendored thing that is Black Sabbath.

View Story Discuss (70) (newsquake.netscape.com) 98 days ago by JamesMarcus

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:04pm

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EXCLUSIVE: How to build a witness camera

Gadgets & Tech – Video surveillance systems have rapidly grown from being a specialized equipment for high-risk areas (like banks and airports), to the point of being standard facilities of most places open to the public.

View Story Discuss (0) (riccibitti.com) 98 days ago by pawfoots

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:04pm

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Controversial college funding bill passedââ;¬"P2P proviso intact

Politics – Despite the MPAA's recent admission that its collegiate file-swapping numbers were wildly inaccurate, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act sailed through the House today by a 354-58 margin with its controversial intellectual property provisions still in place.

View Story Discuss (0) (arstechnica.com) 98 days ago by pawfoots

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:04pm

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PNY XLR8 GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB @ HotHardware.com

Video Games – We evaluate the features, performance, and overclockability of PNY's XLR8 GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB graphics card. Like other 512MB GTS cards, the PNY XLR8 GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB is based on the recently released 65nm G92 GPU that features a full 128 stream processors and a 256-bit memory interface. Head on over to the site and check it out...

View Story Discuss (0) (hothardware.com) 98 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:04pm

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The Washington Indpendent

News – The Washington Independent went beta a few weeks ago. The site employs several reporters to do investigative journalism on topics of national importance.

View Story Discuss (0) (metafilter.com) 98 days ago by pawfoots

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:04pm

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Lessons Learned and Shared

Love & Personals – I was in the Navy several years ago,and I remember some words from a Commander,which are so true in life and can definately be applied to marketing online.

View Story Discuss (0) (community.icontact.com) 98 days ago by pawfoots

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:04pm

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Bush Thinks He Will Help?

Politics – "Listen, the stakes in November are high," Bush said. "This is an important election. Prosperity and peace are in the balance. So with confidence in our vision and faith in our values, let us go forward, fight for victory, and keep the White House in 2008." That's more likely to show up in an Obama or Clinton ad than a McCain

View Story Discuss (4) (washingtonpost.com) 98 days ago by Beau7890

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:04pm

Katie Price's Ã;£43,000 Body Dilemma
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Katie Price's Ã;£43,000 Body Dilemma

Celebrities – British glamour model, Katie Price, aka, Jordon hates her body these days.

View Story Discuss (0) (carefair.com) 98 days ago by Shannonyork

Voted for on February 08, 2008 05:04pm